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(Application led Aug. l0, 1900.)

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No. 662,283. Patented N ov. 20, |900.

K. M. C. M EBED ITH.

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KATHARINE M. C. MEREDITH, OF CEDARHURST, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of" Letters Patent No. 662,283, dated November 20, 1900.

Application led August 10, 190D. Serial No. 26,497, No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, KATHARINE M. C'. MERE- DITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cedarhurst, (Long Island,) State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention relates to corsets; and it consists in constructing a corset so that it may be made the means of reducing the hips, and, further, in providing a corset with means for the attachment of stockingsupporters which will retain their place notwithstanding the changesin the position of the wearer, as fully set forth hereinafter and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in wl1ich- Figure lis a front view of my improved corset with a stocking-supporter applied; Fig. 2, a back View; Fig. 3, a perspective View showing a modification, and Fig. 4L a View showing the ordinary corset with the stocking-supporter flaps.

rlhe corset consists of sectionsAA, shown in Fig. l as connected permanently together at the front edges, although they may be adjustably connected, as in Fig. 3. These sections are fitted to the waist and preferably, as shown, extend down and around the hips to both the front and backconstituting an abdominal supporting portion o. at the front, while alfording means at the back below the waist to bring a firm pressure upon the hips to thereby reduce the same.

Great difficulty has heretofore been experienced in properly supporting stockings, as the supporters, which occupy a proper and comfortable position when the wearer is upright, become slack and allow the stockings to slip down whenV the wearer is seated. In order to secure such a support for the supporters that they will occupy the proper positions in respect to the stockings whatever the position of the wearer, I provide iiaps supported from the corset and clasping the legs just above the knee. With the hip-corset shown in Figs. 1 to 3 the liaps b h extend down from the hip portion and are wide enough to fold nearly around the front and back of the thighs of the legs. In connection with the ordinary form of corset, Fig. 4, the flaps b hang down from the edge of the hip portion, being detachably connected thereto. The supporters B B, preferably constructed like ordinary sock-supporters, are connected to the flaps b at the lower edges at the inner sides, so as to tend to draw the back and front edges together and around the leg, the stockings being connected to the supporters as usual. By means of the flaps short supporters which have little play are used, and the flaps support them so close to the tops of the stockings that they will not change their positions.

Without limiting myself to the construction shown, I claim- 1. A hip-corset consisting of sections fitted to the waist and hips with iiaps extending downward and to the front and rear of the thighs and provided with means for adjustably connecting the edges of the waist portion at the back, substantially as set forth.

2. A hip-corset fitted to clasp the waist and with flaps extending downward over and below the hips and in front and back of the thighs, and provided with tightening means at the back ofthe waist portion, substantially as set forth.

3. A corset provided with liaps extending downward in front and back of the thighs and with stocking-supporters connected to said flaps at the front and rear edges thereof, substantially as set forth.

4. A corset provided with flaps o b extending downward and in front and back of the legs, substantially as set forth.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

KATHARINE M. C. MEREDITI-I.

Witnesses:

JAMES S. MnREDrrH, JAs. W. BURR. 

